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News Release from: Emerson Process Management | Subject: FEED Angola
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2004
Automation of offshore oil production
PlantWeb architecture selected for control and safety systems on a BP Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, to develop the Greater Plutonio Deepwater offshore oil fields of Angola
Emerson Process Management announced that it has been awarded a $9 million contract by BP to automate the floating production, storage and offloading vessel that will develop the Greater Plutonio Deepwater offshore oil fields of Angola Emerson will provide engineering, design and commissioning, plus long-term support for integrated control systems on the BP Greater Plutonio FPSO vessel
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We are pleased at our selection by BP to implement smart FPSO facilities based on PlantWeb digital automation solutions that integrate control and safety systems," said John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management.
"Our PlantWeb services and predictive, advanced technologies enable producers to optimise vessel and facility manning, and design safer facilities that provide early warning of equipment and process problems".
The automation solution will fully integrate subsea, hull and topside control with emergency shutdown and fire and gas systems.
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Operator consoles in the vessel topside control room will provide windows to the entire operation, from the subsea wellheads to the treatment processes to the loading/offloading, and even the navigation lights.
Through Emerson PlantWeb digital plant architecture, BP personnel will have information to prevent abnormal situations that can cost millions of dollars in lost production.
Real-time information on the health of critical devices and equipment from the PlantWeb network, notifies operators when degradation is sensed, enabling preventive action before incidents occur.
Extensive digital diagnostics within the Emerson Fisher Fieldvue digital valve controllers, Rosemount pressure, temperature and level instruments, Micro Motion Coriolis flow meters, and Rosemount Analytical instruments, is delivered through the AMS Suite of predictive applications.
Engineering by Emerson and the project main contractor is underway.
PlantWeb will use 1000 field devices with Foundation fieldbus and 500 devices with HART communication protocol capability, networked with the Emerson DeltaV digital automation system, which includes the unique AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.
The vessel being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries will be 310 metres long, weigh 80,000 tons, and capable of storing 2 million barrels of crude oil, with living quarters for 120 crew members.
The topside facilities will produce an average of 200,000 barrels per day of export quality oil.
All production, gas and water injection wells will be subsea.
The Emerson West African organisation, from its offices in Angola, will manage the final phase of the contract - long-term support - using the PlantWeb predictive maintenance technologies and services through to the year 2016.
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